Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

Hundreds of thousands of us rely on wells for water, and almost 40,000 new wells are drilled each year. Submersible pumps are my favourite option for drawing water that is more than six metres below ...

The truth of the matter is that most basement water problems are not basement problems at all, but exterior drainage problems. So before you consider a sump-pump installation, take a good look (in the ...

Lauren has six years of experience writing and editing home improvement content. She covered lifestyle, DIY, design and cleaning at The Spruce for five years and contributed home improvement pieces to ...

Avoid power-outage droughts by learning how to add a hand pump to an electric well to be able to access water even when the power is out. A few years back, a severe ice storm knocked out my family’s ...

More than 15 million households in the United States depend on wells to access drinking water. If you have a well, then you have a well pump. Well pumps pull water from an underground water source ...